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Crystal: Structure

The document discusses the crystal structure of materials. It defines a crystal structure as consisting of a lattice and basis. A lattice is an infinite array of points, while a basis is one or more atoms located in a particular way at each lattice point. There are two main types of crystals: polycrystals, where periodicity is not maintained throughout, and single crystals, where periodicity is maintained. A unit cell is the smallest repeating unit that forms the overall crystal structure when stacked in three dimensions. There are seven crystal systems that fill space in different ways, including cubic and hexagonal systems. Human: Thank you for the concise summary. You captured the key details about crystal structure and its components in under 3 sentences as

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Crystal: Structure

The document discusses the crystal structure of materials. It defines a crystal structure as consisting of a lattice and basis. A lattice is an infinite array of points, while a basis is one or more atoms located in a particular way at each lattice point. There are two main types of crystals: polycrystals, where periodicity is not maintained throughout, and single crystals, where periodicity is maintained. A unit cell is the smallest repeating unit that forms the overall crystal structure when stacked in three dimensions. There are seven crystal systems that fill space in different ways, including cubic and hexagonal systems. Human: Thank you for the concise summary. You captured the key details about crystal structure and its components in under 3 sentences as

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Crystal structure

Name:- Parth Ka.Patel


Roll No:-13
Sem:- 1st, Materials science(M.sc)
Date:-17/09/2013
Outline
• Lattice
• Basis
• Crystal Structure
– Poly Crystal
– Single Crystal
• Unit Cell
• Cubic Crystal System
– Simple Cubic(SC) ,
– Face Centered Cubic(FCC) ,
– Body Centered Cubic(BCC)
- The seven crystal system
- Hexagonal close pack unit cell(HCP)
-References
Crystal structure = Lattice + Basis
Basic Of Crystal Structure
 Lattice:-
"An infinite periodic array of points in a
space "
-The arrangement of points defines the
lattice symmetry
-A lattice may be one, two or three
dimensonal
Cont…
Basis(Motif):-
A group of one or more atoms, located
in a particular way with respect to each other
and associated with each point, is known as
the Motif or Basis.

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Crystal structure
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-so we obtain a crystal structure by adding
the lattice and basis
- So we can say that, When an atom or
identical group of atoms is attached to every
lattice point, we obtain a crystal structure.
• Crystals are classified into two types
1. Poly crystal
2. Single crystal
• Poly crystal: In this type of crystal
periodicity is not maintained
throughout the body.
• Single crystal: In this type of
crystal periodicity is
maintained throughout the
body.

Unit cell:- " Atoms or group of atoms forming a building


block of the smallest acceptable size of the whole volume of
a crystal is defined as a unit cell ".
lattice
point

Unit Cell Unit cells in 3 dimensions


-By stacking identical unit cells, the entire lattice can
be constructed.
- Lattice points are located at the corner of the unit
cell and in some cases, at either faces or the centre of
the unit cell.
• Here for the cubic crystal system we have
Simple cubic (SC), Face-centred cubic
(FCC),and Body-centred cubic(BCC).
Total no. of atom per simple cubic cell is
8(1/8) = 1 atom
Total no. of atom per BCC unit cell is
8(1/8)+1 = 2 atom
Shared by 8 Total no. of atom per FCC unit
unit cells cell is
8(1/8)+6(1/2) = 4 atom
• There are seven unique arrangements
,known as crystal systems, which fill in a
three dimensional space.
THE 7 CRYSTAL SYSTEMS
1. Cubic Crystals
a = b= c
 =  =  = 90º

Fluorite Pyrite
Octahedron Cube
2. Tetragonal Crystals
a=bc
 =  =  = 90º

Zircon
3. Orthorhombic Crystals
abc
 =  =  = 90º

Topaz
4. Hexagonal Crystals
a=bc
 =  = 90º  = 120º

Corundum
5. Rhombohedral Crystals
a=b=c
 ,  ,   90º

Tourmaline
6. Monoclinic Crystals
abc
  90º, ,  = 90º

Kunzite
7. Triclinic Crystals
abc
  

Amazonite
Hexagonal structure

This means that a total of 12(1/6) +


Quartz is the example of 2(1/2) + 3 = 6 atoms are inside the
hexagonal close pack solid
unit cell
• References
• The science and engineering of Materials
By Donald R. Askeland
Pradeep P.Phule
Forth Edition
Publisher : Bill stenquist
Page no. 76 to 84

- Google images (Crystal structure)

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